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LAW of UKRAINE on the Natural Gas Market This Law Defines Legal LAW OF UKRAINE On the natural gas market This Law defines legal fundamentals of the functioning of the natural gas market in Ukraine founded on principles of free competition, due protection of consumers and security of supply as well as capable of integration with natural gas markets of the states parties of the Energy Community, including by means of creation of regional natural gas markets. CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS Article 1. Definitions 1. In the present Law the following terms are used in the meaning prescribed herein: 1) ‘security of natural gas supply’ means reliable and uninterrupted supply of necessary volumes of natural gas to consumers which is ensured by available sources of natural gas supply as well as the due technical state of gas transmission systems, gas distribution systems, gas storages, and the LNG facility; 2) ‘vertically integrated organization’ means a legal person irrespective of its legal form and the type of property, an individual carrying out commercial activities including the one which controls a legal or physical person, or a group of such persons directly or indirectly linked by relations of control which performs at least one function of transmission, distribution, storage (injection, delivery) of natural gas or of LNG facility services and at least one function of supply or production of natural gas; 3) ‘free capacity’ means a part of technical capacity of a gas infrastructure object the right of use of which has not been provided to users or has not been realized by the user in accordance with the contract for provision of relevant services; 4) ‘vulnerable consumers’ means household consumers granted the right to state assistance in the order prescribed by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; 5) ‘congestion management’ means the taking of measures by a gas transmission system operator, gas distribution system operator, gas storage operator or an LNG facility operator with a view to ensure the maximum utilization of the capacity of the gas transmission system, the gas distribution system, the gas storage or the LNG facility taking into account requirements of integrity of the gas transmission system; 6) ‘gas distribution system’ means a technological complex which consists of objects organizationally and technologically connected with each other and designated for distribution of natural gas from gas distribution stations directly to consumers; 7) ‘gas transmission system’ means a technological complex which consists of a separate main pipeline with all objects and installations connected thereto by a single technological process or a group of such main pipelines and is designated for transmission of natural gas from the entry point(s) to the exit point(s); 8) ‘access’ means the right of use of the capacity of a gas infrastructure object in the volume and pursuant to the rules established in the contract for provision of services of transmission, distribution, storage, or LNG facility services; 9) ‘user’ means a natural or legal person which pursuant to the contract orders provision of one or several of the following services: connection to a gas transmission or distribution system; transmission of natural gas; distribution of natural gas; storage (injection, delivery) of natural gas; LNG facility services; 10) ‘protected consumers’ means household consumers connected to a gas distribution system, enterprises and organizations which provide important public services and are connected to a gas transmission or distribution system as well as producers of heat to meet the needs of such consumers or enterprises and organizations provided that heat generation for the needs of such consumers, enterprises and organisation takes place using objects not equipped for the change of fuel and connected to a gas transmission or distribution system; 11) ‘gas transmission system code, gas distribution system code, gas storage code, LNG facility code’ mean the rules of operation and access to a gas transmission system, gas distribution system, gas storage, and an LNG facility approved by the Regulator; 12) ‘compliance officer’ means a person responsible for monitoring and reporting on the status of performance of requirements of unbundling and independence of a gas transmission system operator; 2 13) ‘control’ means the decisive influence or the possibility to exercise the decisive influence on the commercial activities of the subject of the natural gas market, in particular by virtue of the title to or the right to use the entirety or the major part of assets of such a subject, of rights which ensure decisive influence on the composition, voting results or decisions of bodies of such a subject, etc; 14) ‘crisis situation with the supply of natural gas’ (hereinafter – crisis situation) means the occurrence of unexpected and unpredictable circumstances including the circumstances which may have been predicted but could not have been objectively prevented by the authorities, which has caused or may cause limitation or termination of supply of natural gas to the natural gas market of Ukraine or other obstacles for safe and uninterrupted work of a gas transmission system, gas distribution system, gas storage or an LNG facility; 15) ‘National action plan’ means a national plan of actions in case of a crisis situation adopted by the [Ministry of Energy and the Coal Industry]; 16) ‘gas infrastructure objects’ means gas transmission systems, gas distribution systems, gas storages, and an LNG facility; 17) ‘gas distribution system operator’ means a subject of commercial activity which acts on the basis of a license and carries out activities of distribution of natural gas for the benefit of third parties (users) via a gas distribution system; 18) ‘gas storage operator’ means a subject of commercial activity which acts on the basis of a license and carries out activities of storage (injection, delivery) of natural gas for the benefit of third parties (users) via one or several gas storages; 19) ‘gas transmission system operator’ means a subject of commercial activity which acts on the basis of a license and carries out activities of transmission of natural gas for the benefit of third parties (users) via a gas transmission system; 20) ‘LNG facility operator’ means a subject of commercial activity which acts on the basis of a license and carries out activities of provision of the LNG facility services for the benefit of third parties (users); 21) ‘wholesale buyer’ means a subject of commercial activity which procures natural gas on the basis of a sale-purchase contract not for its own consumption; 22) ‘wholesale seller’ means a subject of commercial activity which sells natural gas under a sale-purchase contract to a wholesale buyer or a supplier; 23) ‘household consumer’ means a consumer which is an individual and procures natural gas to use it for its own household needs, including for cooking, 3 boiling water or heating its premises, which does not include professional or commercial activities; 24) ‘official of a legal person (gas transmission system operator, gas transmission system owner, gas distribution system operator, gas storage operator, LNG facility operator)’ means an individual which is a chairperson or a member of the supervisory board, executive body (chairperson or member of a collective executive body; person single-handedly in change of the executive function), the revision commission, a revision officer, as well as a chairman and members of any other body of a legal person if the establishment of such a body is prescribed by the statute or other constituent document of the legal person; 25) ‘LNG facility services’ means commercial activity which is subject to licensing and consists of transformation of natural gas from the gaseous into liquid state (liquefaction) or transformation of the LNG from the liquid into gaseous state (re-gasification); 26) ‘last-resort supplier’ means a supplier designated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine which may not refuse to conclude a contract for supply of natural gas for a limited period time; 27) ‘natural gas supplier’ (hereinafter – supplier) means a subject of commercial activity which based on a license carries out natural gas supply; 28) ‘natural gas supply’ means commercial activity which is subject to licensing and consists of selling natural gas directly to consumers on the basis of concluded contracts; 29) ‘capacity’ means the maximum allowed flow of the volume of natural gas as expressed in units of energy per a unit of time which is provided to a user in accordance with the contract for provision of services of transmission, distribution, storage (injection, delivery) or of LNG facility services; 30) ‘connection’ means a set of organizational and technical measures, including works, directed at creation of the technical possibility for provision of services of transmission or distribution of natural gas which are taken in relation to physical connection of an object in construction or an existing object of the user to the gas transmission or distribution system; 31) ‘natural gas, petroleum gas, coal-bed gas (methane) and gas of shale layers, tight gas, gas of central basins’ (hereinafter – natural gas) means a mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon components in the gaseous state under 4 standard conditions (pressure at 760 mm of mercury, temperature at 20 degrees) which qualifies as a commodity; 32) ‘Regulator’ means the national commission performing state regulation in the energy and utilities sectors; 33) ‘natural gas market’ means
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